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  • In the Beginning God…

    Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us. Ephesians 3:20 Lately, God has prompted me to look back and see His work along the path that lead me to Johnson Space Center in Houston. It seems the pieces fall into place clearly as I reflect on God's guidance. If someone told me when I was a kid,… Read More

  • Need a Little White Space?

    James Voss reads The Last of the Mohicans He said to them, “Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.” Mark 6:31 My team spent hours designing our experiment. We'd spent more hours training the shuttle crew to perform it on orbit. Didn't the scheduler know that? Why, then, did he refuse to allow time for the shuttle crew to do it on days I'd requested?  Believe it or not, he… Read More

  • Do We Pray Without Seeing?

    I walked into the reception area. My heart leaped around like a baby goat. Another job interview. I’d lived in the Houston area for year and my new engineering degree had burned a hole in my pocket. I’d prayed, a lot. While I scoured newspapers for jobs, I prayed. When I filled out an application, I prayed. Every time I headed in for an interview…well, you get the picture. Even so, the jobs always went… Read More

  • The Sum of Our Steps

    A person’s steps are directed by the LORD. How then can anyone understand their own way? Prov 20:24 My Uncle John was in the Battle of Normandy during World War II. To this day, even in his nineties, he cries about his friends who died around him as they came on shore. The last time I saw him, he asked me why God allowed him to live when so many others died. I looked around… Read More

  • 4 Truths to Conquer the 4 D’s

    Therefore, since through God’s mercy we have this ministry, we do not lose heart. But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.   2 Corinthians 4: 1, 7-9 It's been a year. A year since the writer's… Read More